From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:15:58 -0400 From: Wayne Topa Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Debian apt-get link problem Message-ID: <20010906131558.A723@dmcom.net> References: <20010827114957.A23458@dmcom.net> <20010830141259.E22755@dmcom.net> <20010901003241.B1210@wookimus.net> <20010901095643.A7188@dmcom.net> <20010904110319.A1028@sistina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010904110319.A1028@sistina.com> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com AJ Lewis(lewis@sistina.com) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:56:43AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > ^chewie(chewie@wookimus.net) is reported to have said: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > I just tried the link > > > > > ( deb ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM/binaries/debian unstable main ) > > > > > > I hate to state the obvious, but apt does not Debian make. Try > > > manually downloading the *.deb files and installing them manually with > > > dpkg -i . > > > > Thanks. Yes that is what I did do, but when both the docs had the > > apt-get sources address, which didn't work, I thought I was doing > > something wrong. I don't rely on .deb files, just use apt-get when > > there are files available. > > I've removed the info about using apt-get from the README.Debian on the ftp > site. The HowTo no longer contains this information. Sorry for the > confusion. :( Thanks for the reply. Good Idea to remove the link, I think. BTW, that a great HowTo! Wayne -- For any problem there is a solution that is simple, quick, and ultimately worse than the problem. _______________________________________________________